October, 1999

Administration

In May, Julianne Tolson, Computing Services, co-led three sessions at a conference in New Orleans on "Public Relations and Publications in Cyberspace," sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The sessions were "Building Your Best Web Team," "Building or Rebuilding Your Web site," and "Creative Solutions to Cyberchallenges."

Business

David Franz and Joanne Duke, Accounting, presented the paper "Firm-Specific Determinants of Off-Balance Sheet Leasing: A Test of the Smith Wakeman Model" at the National American Accounting Association’s annual meeting held this past August in San Diego.

Creative Arts

The paper "Printed Circuit Board Design in a School Computer Laboratory" by Yu-Charn Chen, Design & Industry, was selected to be presented at the annual Design and Technology Education Research conference held August 23–25 at Loughborough, Leicester, U.K.

Richard Festinger, Music, received a commission from the Barlow Foundation for Music Composition at Brigham Young University for the composition of a percussion duo for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, to be premiered during the 2000–2001 concert season.

Yukihiro Goto, Theatre Arts, was an artist-in-residence last June and July at the 1999 Portland International Performance Festival. Goto taught two Asian acting courses and staged "East/West Fusion Theater," a play that used Asian theater styles and techniques to recreate scenes from Western plays.

Marty Gonzales, BECA, presented his documentary "Cuba: The Revolution at 40" at the national convention of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication in New Orleans, LA, Aug. 4.

Richard Mann, Art, presented a paper at a conference held Sept. 2 in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the theme "Architectural Culture By 1909: Critical Reappraisal and Heritage Preservation." Mann’s paper was titled "Gaudi and Guell: Catalan Nationalism, Private Patronage and Architectural Innovation in Barcelona."

Education

Adriana Schuler, Special Education, served as discussant and moderator of Early Intervention Programmes at the conference on Autism: DNA to day to day Living held in London, England, June 10–11. Schuler also presented a critical discussion of the effectiveness of early intervention programs at the symposium "Early Identification and Intervention for Autism" at the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Barcelona, Spain, June 17–20.

Kate Kinsella, Secondary Education, was a featured speaker on "Academic Literacy Development in Multilingual Contexts" at the National Two-Way Bilingual Conference held July 7 in Monterey, CA. Kinsella also conducted the intensive seminar "Academic Vocabulary Development in the Second Language Classrooms" for the July Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages conference held at Seattle University and the University of Illinois, Chicago.

On Sept. 2, Lynn Fox, Secondary Education, conducted an in-service training on "Creativity and Consistency in the Classroom" for Terra Linda High School in Pacifica.

Health and Human Services

The following papers were presented by members of the Department of Kinesiology at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity held June 10–12 in Clearwater Beach, Florida: David Anderson presented the papers "The Role of Motor Development on Psychological Function" and "Kinesthetic Influences on Putting Performance"; Bradford Bennet and Joseph Higgins presented "The Control of Balance Under Different Task Constraints: A New Analytic Approach"; Mi-Sook Kim presented an "Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the Approach to Coping in Sport Questionnaire in the Case of U.S. and Korean Athlete Samples"; and Stephen Wallace presented a paper titled "Eigenfrequency Estimations in the Hand and Arm: Implications for Dynamical Systems Modeling of Reaching Movements."

Zoe Clayson, Health Education, was recently appointed to the Partnership for the Public’s Health Advisory Committee, a five year initiative funded by the California Endowment. The initiative will study how to reshape public health systems in way that is more responsive to the health priorities of local communities.

Humanities

H. Douglas Brown, English, delivered keynote addresses, "Putting principles to work in your English language classroom," at conferences of English teachers in Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic, June 7–11.

Masahiko Minami, Foreign Languages, presented several papers this summer in Tokyo, Japan: "A cross-cultural comparison of preschoolers’ narrative discourse skills and parental scaffolding" and "Narrating a frog story: the acquisition of narrative by second-language learners" at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics, and "Book-reading styles of Japanese mothers" at the Japanese Society for Language Sciences.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, presented the paper "Costly to Whom? Effective for What? Measuring Healthcare for No One and Nowhere" at the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in Atlanta, GA, Sept. 5.

Louise Rehling, Technical and Professional Writing, has had two articles appear in journals recently. "Exchanging Expertise: Learning from the Workplace and Educating It, Too," appears in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and "Print to Online: Conflicting Tales of Transition" appears in Technical Communication.

Library

Meredith Eliassen, Special Collections, contributed to the children’s literature section of the "1998 MLA International Bibliography." It is the first time that there has been a section in the Modern Language Association’s bibliography of scholarly work that is devoted to works about children’s literature.

Science and Engineering

Wolfram Stadler, Engineering, presented "Discrete Geometry, the Steiner Problem, and Topology Optimizations" at the Third World Congress of ISSMO held last May in Buffalo, NY. Stadler also presented "Natural Law—Obscure But Essential Design Constraint" to the Institute of Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Peter Palmer, Chemistry & Biochemistry, along with co-authors X. Fan and B. Nies presented "Comparison of Various Direct Sampling Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Monitoring VOCs in Air" at the American Chemical Society Meeting, held March 21–25, Anaheim, CA.

Joseph Romeo, Center for Biomedical Laboratory Science, gave the oral presentation "The Role of the HIV-1 Transactivator, Tat, in Latently Infected Cells" at the 1999 Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS "HIV Pathogenesis as a Foundation for New Therapies." His collaborators for the event, held March 4–7, were Matija Peterlin, Laurence Huang, and Dan Irwin.

Dennis Desjardin, Biology, presented "Mycological expeditions to Indonesia" to the Mycological Society of San Francisco on March 16. He also presented "Studying fungal diversity in the tropics" at the Mycology Colloquium at the Dept. of Plant Pathology on April 15 at UC Davis.

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